Donald Trump is facing backlash from his MAGA base after the president said he would "love" to work with Democrats to soften his hardline immigration policies in the wake of the GOP's election disaster.
During Sunday's 60 Minutes interview, Trump admitted that his plans to carry out the largest mass deportation program in U.S. history were "too tough" and hurt the GOP in the Nov. 3 elections, as "good people" with no criminal background were swept up in the crackdown.
"We also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, were breaking a law, and that was that they came into the country illegally," Trump told 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat.
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"Now there is a large part of the country that think that they should be put out, and there's a large part of the country that think that they should be allowed to stay—if they're good people working in a landscaping company or working in a hotel or doing something, right, and in some cases paying taxes—there's a large group of people who think that they should be allowed to stay."
Donald Trump sat down with Ross Douthat to discuss the GOP's devastating midterm election...

